Post-Brexit £1,000 farming payments ‘too little, too late’, says NFU

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Environmental cash incentives part of government scheme to replace EU common agricultural policy

Farmers are to receive additional payments of up to £1,000 a year for protecting nature and the environment, as the government changes post-Brexit subsidies to agriculture.

The increased payments will come under the environmental land management schemes (Elms), the cornerstone of the government’s system for replacing the EU’s much-criticised common agricultural policy (CAP).

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